The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9837 or 9837?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9837?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9837| = ?
The absolute value of 9837 is the distance between 9837 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9837:
Since the distance between 9837 and 0 on a number line is 9837, we get the answer as follows:
|9837| = 9837
Note that the absolute value of 9837 can also be written as abs(9837) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9838
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